Acknowledgements

This article has been published with financial assistance from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

I would like to thank Professor Bill Hillier (UCL), Hanna Stoeger (University of Leiden) and Kate Giles (University of York) for their advice and comments on writing this article especially regarding practicalities of the analysis. Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld (Tilburg University), and the staff and PhDs of the Centre of Urban History at the University of Antwerp for their comments on the structure and legibility of an earlier draft.